Mental toughness is obtained through self-searching honesty, which identifies and admits frankly the deficiencies within. Simultaneously with this, is the comprehension of various aspects and traits, which are congruous with a tough an resilient personality. Dealing with these in detail in his poem “IF, Rudyard Kipling talks of the need “to keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.” This verily is also equanimity, conceived as samatvam by Bhagwad Gita (2, 48) which also exhorts on the need to be balanced in honour and ridicule (6, 7) and also in heat and cold” (figuratively standing for hostility and indifference without)Absence of falsehood and hatred is also indicative of inner strength. Kipling advises that on being ‘lied about, don’t deal in lies / or being hated, don’t give way to hating.” The bible also extols forgiveness and in fact doing a good turn even to those who are inimical or unfair( Luke:6-7 to 38: Mathew:5-11, 43, 44&22,39). Valluvar, the great Tamil writer also deals with this virtue of forbearance in his Kural 151 to 160).